Saturday, January 01, 2000

&Review

Issue 4 saw me serve as guest editor, but I also contributed an introduction and a video for the issue. You can see the online version of the issue here.You can see the video on vimeo here. You can read a blog post about the issue here. You can see some photos of the print issue here [coming].

As I blogged here, I wrote a poem for the third issue titled "Plumule, or, I never meant to make a fist" and you can peruse said issue here.

As I blogged here, I wrote a poem for the second issue titled "No Answers, or, Winter is over if you want it" and you can peruse said issue here.

My essay on James Gray was published in Issue No. 2, translated into German, but it has yet to appear in its original English online. This space will be updated as soon as my work does become available. For now, here's my link-thru post about the piece. UPDATE: The essay was eventually published in English at The Auteurs: Forms of Fate: Two Lovers

Coming soon. But, please, visit their website. They're good guys. Also, so you know, it's in German. More from David Hudson here and here.

When I started writing up the final Lost season here at VINYL, Keith Uhlich asked if I'd be amenable to the pieces being simulposted (new word!) over at the redesigned HND at Slant Magazine. I agreed. Here's the first one: Last Lost: Season 6, Eps. 1 & 2, "LA X"

We Live

I'm not telling you to make the world better, because I don't think that progress is necessarily part of the package. I'm just telling you to live in it. Not just to endure it, not just to suffer it, not just to pass through it, but to live in it. To look at it. To try to get the picture. To live recklessly. To take chances. To make your own work and take pride in it. To seize the moment. And if you ask me why you should bother to do that, I could tell you that the grave's a fine and private place, but none I think do there embrace. Nor do they sing there, or write, or argue, or see the tidal bore on the Amazon, or touch their children. And that's what there is to do and get it while you can and good luck at it.— Joan Didion